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Summary: WASHINGTON, March 8 (LID) -- The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is trying to intimidate tea-party groups that have filed papers seeking tax-exempt status, alleges a public interest law firm [...]

A California newspaper ordered by the National Labor Relations Board this week to rehire a group of reporters the paper illegally fired for union activities said Friday the company will [...]

San Francisco's interim mayor, Edwin Lee, on Monday filed candidacy papers to seek a full four-year term as the city's chief executive. Lee, the 59-year-old former city administrator, was appointed [...]

The Obama administration on Monday filed papers to block enforcement of Alabama's recently passed immigration law that's aimed at cracking down on undocumented persons. The statute, H.B. 56, was signed [...]

The Obama administration on Monday filed papers to block enforcement of Alabama's recently passed immigration law that's aimed at cracking down on undocumented persons. The statute, H.B. 56, was signed [...]

Summary: Averting trial of a closely watched bellwether products-liability case, Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) settled claims the pharmaceutical maker failed to state adequately the psychiatric risks--including suicide--associated with use of [...]

Summary: By Tom Scott Executive director at California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (CALA) You may have heard the term 'vexatious litigant' and quickly think of ADA lawsuits, but that is [...]

Summary: NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (LID) — West Publishing and Reed Elsevier are targets of a lawsuit alleging the firms routinely violate lawyers' copyrights by including in their subscription databases [...]

Summary: WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (LID) -- A group of U.S. Senate Democrats have thrown their support behind a proposal by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that would require wider disclosure [...]

Summary: WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (LID) -- The long-delayed U.S.-South Korea free-trade agreement will take effect March 15,United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Tuesday. Kirk said the U.S. government has [...]

Summary: ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 15 (LID) -- A federal judge Wednesday rejected a request from Exxon Mobil Corp. that the court bar the U.S. and Alaska governments from seeking new [...]

Summary: LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11 (LID) -- The Sugar Association and sugar farmers the trade group represents have filed a lawsuit alleging that member companies of the Corn Refiners Association [...]

Summary: NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 2 (LID)--A coalition of environmental organizations filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Taylor Energy Company LLCover an oil spill 11 miles off the coast of Louisiana [...]

Summary: CHICAGO, Jan. 26 (LID) -- Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) filed a lawsuit against Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, alleging the company misrepresented the value of residential mortgage-backed [...]

Summary: Jan. 19 (LID) -- A unit of Johnson & Johnson, the world's largest healthcare products company, has agreed to pay $158 million to settle civil claims by Texas officials [...]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (BLD) — President Barack Obama (D) has ordered a modernization of government recordskeeping with federal agencies to make wider use of digital documents, the White House announced [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a libertarian-leaning think tank, supports a legal challenge to the $3.4 billion settlement to a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. government over mismanagement [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Employers will continue to be able to provide California workers with their wages on debit cards, following Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown's veto of legislation that sought to [...]

WASHINGTON -- AT&T and the U.S. Department of Justice have agreed on a special master to arbitrate disputes over evidence as the telecommunications giant readies to defend its proposed $39 [...]

WASHINGTON -- AT&T and the U.S. Department of Justice have agreed on a special master to arbitrate disputes over evidence as the telecommunications giant readies to defend its proposed $39 [...]

WASHINGTON -- Class counsel that won approval of a $3.4 billion settlement to a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. government over mismanagement of Indian trust funds has drawn the ire [...]

WILMINGTON, Del. — Solyndra LLC, the embattled solar-panel maker under federal investigation, warrants having a court-appointed trustee to oversee the California-based company's bankruptcy since executives remain reticent about the manufacturer's [...]

WILMINGTON, Del. — Solyndra LLC, the embattled solar-panel maker under federal investigation, warrants having a court-appointed trustee to oversee the California-based company's bankruptcy since executives remain reticent about the manufacturer's [...]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in a case over the amount of disability benefits an employer must pay to a maritime worker injured on the [...]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in a case over the amount of disability benefits an employer must pay to a maritime worker injured on the [...]

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of attorneys general from seven states on Friday joined a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit to block AT&T Inc.'s $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA, [...]

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of attorneys general from seven states on Friday joined a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit to block AT&T Inc.'s $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) decision to suspend public access to information on medical malpractice claims and disciplinary actions filed against physicians drew criticism [...]

SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) spent nearly $140,000 in an effort to shield information on individual pensions from release to two major newspapers in the [...]

August 22, 2011 Business Law Daily LOS ANGELES -- A California state Court of Appeal panel in Los Angeles has upheld a $13.8 million punitive-damage judgment against cigarette makerPhilip MorrisUSA [...]

Aug. 17, 2011 Business Law Daily Allstate Insurance Co. this week filed a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs Group Inc., claiming the brokerage company misrepresented the value of residential mortgage-backed securities [...]

U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Terence Evans of the Chicago-based Seventh Circuit has died. He was 71 years old. Evans died Wednesday night while admitted at the University of Chicago [...]

A U.S. District Court judge in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday refused to issue a preliminary injunction against design-house Yves Saint Laurent from selling shoes with a [...]

Financial troubles for a major insurer of U.S. home loans have worsened, possibly forcing a unit of The PMI Group holding company to stop writing new business in more than [...]

Comcast Corp. has agreed to pay up to $3.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in Washington that alleges violations of the state's restrictions on robo calls. U.S. District Judge [...]

A U.S. District Court judge in California on Tuesday denied class certification in a case alleging that the manufacturer's original paint on some Lexus automobiles is faulty. The lawsuit against [...]

A U.S. District Court judge in California on Tuesday denied class certification in a case alleging that the manufacturer's original paint on some Lexus automobiles is faulty. The lawsuit against [...]

U.S. Bank N.A. faces a revived class-action lawsuit, after a federal appeals court Monday found that a California consumer protection statute is not preempted by federal law, in a case [...]

U.S. Bank N.A. faces a revived class-action lawsuit, after a federal appeals court Monday found that a California consumer protection statute is not preempted by federal law, in a case [...]